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Re:Ask HN: Will e-ink laptops be a thing soon, or ever? by dragonwriter on Friday May 13, 2016 @01:16PM (#11691695)
> Do you mean power intensive if you're updating the screen constantly, like you would if typing?

That's what I meant. (And I'm not sure; ISTR that they are more power intensive for updates, but I don't know in typical general-computer-use cycle how they would fare against more typical laptop displays, if it would just be reducing their advantage or flipping to a disadvantage.)

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Re:Ask HN: Will e-ink laptops be a thing soon, or ever? by Kluny on Friday May 13, 2016 @01:25PM (#11691768)
Yeah, I would be interested to know how they stack up. Seems to me that a lot of power is saved by not lighting the screen up brighter than the sun. The updates take a lot of power, I thin, because the whole screen has to be refreshed with each keystroke. But that's the same as with LCDs, isn't it?
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